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Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Sumedha
dc.contributor.authorMontenovo, Laura
dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Thuy
dc.contributor.authorLozano-Rojas, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorSchmutte, Ian
dc.contributor.authorSimon, Kosali
dc.contributor.authorWeinberg, Bruce A.
dc.contributor.authorWing, Coady
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-05T16:39:33Z
dc.date.available2024-02-05 11:39:31en
dc.date.available2022-12-05T16:39:33Z
dc.date.issued2023-01
dc.identifier.citationGupta, Sumedha; Montenovo, Laura; Nguyen, Thuy; Lozano-Rojas, Felipe ; Schmutte, Ian; Simon, Kosali; Weinberg, Bruce A.; Wing, Coady (2023). "Effects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes." Contemporary Economic Policy 41(1): 166-193.
dc.identifier.issn1074-3529
dc.identifier.issn1465-7287
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/175196
dc.description.abstractUS workers receive unemployment benefits if they lose their job, but not for reduced working hours. In alignment with the benefits incentives, we find that the labor market responded to COVID-19 and related closure-policies mostly on the extensive (12 pp outright job loss) margin. Exploiting timing variation in state closure-policies, difference-in-differences (DiD) estimates show, between March 12 and April 12, 2020, employment rate fell by 1.7 pp for every 10 extra days of state stay-at-home orders (SAH), with little effect on hours worked/earnings among those employed. Forty percentage of the unemployment was due to a nationwide shock, rest due to social-distancing policies, particularly among “non-essential” workers.
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.publisherEconofact
dc.subject.otheremployment
dc.subject.otherclosure policies
dc.subject.otherCOVID-19
dc.subject.otherearnings
dc.titleEffects of social distancing policy on labor market outcomes
dc.typeArticle
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEconomics
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelBusiness and Economics
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.identifier.doi10.1111/coep.12582
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